BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:283@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T160000 DTSTAMP:20191011T222045Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/contested-foundations-1-1/ SUMMARY:Contested Foundations: Commemorating the Red Letter Year of 1619\, Conference 1: “20. And odd Negroes”: African Labor\, Colonial Economie s\, Cultural Pluralities [DAY 1] DESCRIPTION:—organized by Brenda E. Stevenson (University of California\, Los Angeles) and Sharla M. Fett (Occidental College)\n\nThe year 1619 was designated as the red-letter year in Virginia\, the first permanent colon y in British North America\, for three reasons—it marked the beginning o f a representative government\; the arrival of captive African laborers\; and the initiation of a successful plan to encourage permanent family deve lopment through the importation of English women. It was on June 29\, 1619 \, that Sir George Yeardley\, governor general of the colony\, convened a legislative assembly consisting of persons sent as representatives by its free male residents. It was the first such legislative assembly in the Bri tish colonial New World. Two months later\, the first shipment of Africans arrived at Point Comfort on the southern coast of Virginia\, a foreshadow ing of the hundreds of thousands of African laborers who would eventually arrive and help to transform Virginia\, and several other colonies\, into race-based-slave economies. That same year\, the Virginia Company of Londo n began a concerted effort to recruit “respectable [English] women” to the colony so that\, in the words of one Company officer\, they could “ ‘make wifes to the inhabitants and by that meanes to make the men there more settled and less moveable.” The combination of these efforts\, all meant to enhance the lives of the colonial male elite\, marked the beginni ng of a true settler colony for Britain in North America. This beginning c ame with grim implications for the indigenous populations the British enco untered. These experiments in governance\, settler colonialism\, and a rac ialized economy also proved to be the characteristic underpinnings of our independent nation two hundred and fifty years later. 1619 was indeed the red-letter year of British America’s 17th century!\n\nThe 2019–20 core program\, which marks the 400th anniversary of this notable year\, encom passes three conferences\, each of which will address one of the three sem inal events of 1619 within the geopolitical\, economic\, and social/cultur al contexts of 17th and 18th century North America. Across these conferenc es\, we will also consider 1619’s impact on the nation’s eventual char acter. The British\, of course\, were not the first Europeans to explore\, establish permanent settlements\, import African slaves\, or create gover ning structures in North America. The French and the Spanish made several forays into the southern\, gulf\, and western regions before the British. Therefore\, the program will also encompass French and Spanish forays into the southern\, gulf\, and western regions.\n\nThe inaugural conference\, “’20. And odd Negroes’: African Labor\, Colonial Economies\, Cultura l Pluralities\,” references the 1619 forced migration of Africans to col onial Virginia. Scholars will discuss the arrival\, distribution and resis tance of African laborers among British settlers and those of other Europe an colonies in North America\; the creation of slave-based (African and in digenous) and slave trade influenced colonial economies\; and the evolving legal and social implications of the growing cultural diversity of the co lonial population.  Collectively\, presentations encourage a discourse ab out Europeans of varied religious and linguistic backgrounds\, diverse ind igenous peoples\, and multiple African ethnicities.\n\nSpeakers\nCatherine M. Cameron\, University of Colorado\, Boulder\nDavid Eltis\, Emory Univer sity and University of British Columbia\nAyana Omilade Flewellen\, Univers ity of California\, Berkeley\nMark G. Hanna\, University of California\, S an Diego\nGregory E. O’Malley\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\nB rett Rushforth\, University of Oregon\nBrenda E. Stevenson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nAndrew Kettler\, Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fe llow\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n10:00 a.m.\nMorning Coffee and Registration\n\n10:3 0 a.m.\nHelen Deutsch\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nWelcome         \n\nBrenda E. Stevenson\, University of California\, Los Angele s\nSharla M. Fett\, Occidental College\nOpening Remarks\n\n10:45 a.m.\nPan el 1: Virginia 1619:  African Arrivals\nChair: Robert C. Ritchie\, Huntin gton Library\n\nBrenda E. Stevenson\, University of California\, Los Angel es\n“They called her Angela:  Life and Labor of the First Generation of African Females in Colonial Virginia” \n\n11:15 a.m.\nMark G. Hanna\, University of California\, San Diego\n“Piracy and the Transatlantic Slav e Trade: The Case of the Arrival of African Captives in Virginia”\n\n11: 45 a.m.\nCoffee Break\n\n12:00 p.m.\n\nDavid Wheat\, Michigan State Univer sity\n“Shifting Landscapes: African Ethnic Diversity in the Slave Trade to the Americas”\n\n12:30 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n1:00 p.m.\nLunch\n\n2:15 p .m.\nPanel 2: Slave Trades and Captive Economies\nChair: Sharla M. Fett\, Occidental College\n\nGregory E. O’Malley\, University of California\, S anta Cruz\n“Moved Across Distant Empires: The Intercolonial African Slav e Trade to the British American Mainland”  \n\n2:45 p.m.\nCoffee Break\ n\n3:00 p.m.\nBrett Rushforth\, University of Oregon\n“Enslaving Others and Othering Slaves: Native Americans\, Africans\, and Race in Early Ameri ca”\n\n3:30 p.m.\nDiscussion \n\n4:00 p.m.\nReception\n\n\n\nAfter book ing your spot for Day 1\, please remember to book Day 2\n\nThere is no cha rge for this event. Advance booking is requested. 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